Daily Scripture Analysis

  • First Sunday – Year B – Advent

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download First Sunday – Year B – Advent Readings: Isa 63:16b-17, 19b, 64:2-7; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Mk 13:33-37. Reading 1 (Isa 63:16b-17, 19b, 64:2-7): You, LORD, are our father,our redeemer you are named forever.Why do you let us wander, O LORD, from your ways,and harden our hearts so that we fear you not?Return for the sake of your servants,the tribes of your heritage.Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,with the mountains quaking before you,while you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for,such as they had not heard of from of … Read more

  • Saturday – Thirty-fourth Week – OT2

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Thirty-fourth Week – OT2 Readings: Rev 22:1-7; Lk 21:34-36.   Reading 1 (Rev 22:1-7): John said: An angel showed me the river of life-giving water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the street, On either side of the river grew the tree of life that produces fruit twelve times a year, once each month; the leaves of the trees serve as medicine for the nations. Nothing accursed will be found anymore. The throne of God and of … Read more

  • Friday – Thirty-fourth Week – OT2

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Friday – Thirty-fourth Week – OT2   Readings: Rev 20:1-4, 11-15, 21:1-2; Lk 21:29-33. 1/ First Reading: NAB Revelation 20:1 Then I saw an angel come down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a heavy chain. 2 He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is the Devil or Satan, and tied it up for a thousand years 3 and threw it into the abyss, which he locked over it and sealed, so that it could no longer lead the nations astray until the … Read more

  • Thanksgiving Day – November 23rd

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thanksgiving Day – November 27th   Readings: Sir 50:22-24; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Lk 17:11-19.   1/ Reading I: RSV Sirach 50:22 And now bless the God of all, who in every way does great things; who exalts our days from birth and deals with us according to his mercy. 23 May he give us gladness of heart, and grant that peace may be in our days in Israel, as in the days of old. 24 May he entrust to us his mercy! And let him deliver us in our days! … Read more

  • Wednesday – Thirty-fourth Week – OT2

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Wednesday – Thirty-fourth Week – OT2 Readings: Rev 15:1-4; Lk 21:12-19. First Reading (Rev 15:1-4):  I, John, saw in heaven another sign, great and awe-inspiring: seven angels with the seven last plagues, for through them God’s fury is accomplished. Then I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire. On the sea of glass were standing those who had won the victory over the beast and its image and the number that signified its name. They were holding God’s harps, and they sang the song of Moses, the … Read more

  • The Holy Martyrs of Vietnam – November 24th

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download The Holy Martyrs of Vietnam – November 24th Readings: II Mac 7:1, 20-23, 27b-29; Rom 8:31b-39; Lk 9:23-26. 1/ First Reading: RSV 2 Maccabees 7:1 It happened also that seven brothers and their mother were arrested and were being compelled by the king, under torture with whips and cords, to partake of unlawful swine’s flesh. 20 The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable memory. Though she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord. … Read more

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